Trump would offer himself as a "conservative with a big heart", oppose tax on the rich

[somone]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/02/nyregion/after-roasting-trump-reacts-in-character.html

After Roasting, Trump Reacts in Character
By MICHAEL BARBARO

He was savagely mocked by President Obama and the comedian Seth Meyers at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner — belittled as a political charlatan with an unchecked ego and a dead fox plastered on his head. But the next morning, Donald J. Trump was not laughing. He was doing what seems to come more naturally: lashing out. “Seth Meyers has no talent,” Mr. Trump said in an interview on Sunday. “He fell totally flat. In fact, I thought Seth’s delivery was so bad that he hurt himself.”

Mr. Trump, who appeared unsmiling throughout most of the annual dinner on Saturday night, acknowledged his occasional discomfort (“I am not looking to laugh along with my enemies”) but said he viewed the rough treatment as a measure of the fear he has struck in the Washington establishment. “It was like a roast of Donald Trump,” he said, clearly reveling in the attention, if not the content...

During a lengthy conversation inside his 61st-floor suite at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, amid the Trump-branded room service menus and bottles of Trump Ice water, he provided ample fodder for supporters and skeptics — waxing about foreign policy and his TV ratings, displaying a detailed understanding of the political landscape and a curious insensitivity toward potential voters. At one point, he compared his opposition to the legalization of same-sex marriage to his reluctance to use a new kind of putter... He said that, should he run, he would offer himself as a “conservative with a big heart.”...

Mr. Trump, who faces scrutiny from Republicans over his conservative credentials, said he no longer supported two proposals he put forth in 1999, when he last considered running for president: a one-time tax of 14.25 percent on the wealthiest Americans and a single-payer health care program. Today, he said, the economy is too weak for either to work... Mr. Trump, 64, repeatedly found ways to weave the topic of his wealth, and its luxurious reach, into the conversation. “Look at that,” he interrupted, pointing to a giant white plane hovering outside the room’s windows. “That’s my plane. How beautiful is that?” He also announced that he had just bought a Boeing 757 from Paul G. Allen, one of the founders of Microsoft, and was having it refitted to his specifications...

[baldguy]

1. Sez the guy whose famous mostly for firing people for trivial reasons.

[eleny]

2. "savagely mocked"

[tularetom]

4. He has no idea what "savagely mocked" even means

Like oh, maybe pictures of you with a hitler mustache or your face superimposed on an ape's body.

Or watermelon's growing on the white house lawn.

Trump is a wimp - he wouldn't stand up to any foreign leaders, he'd just go back to the white house and whine about how mean they were to him like Mr. Bill



Come to think of it - Mr Bill's hair looks awfully familiar. Hmmm.

[Raine]

6. Exactly, what he got was mild compared to what others

have had to endure and a large part of the ugliness was dished out by Trump. Trump really laid some ugly mean vile things on Rosie O'Donnell about her appearance, bad enough to make you :puke:

[blondeatlast]

3. Hey, Big Top, that isn't fear--wereally are laughing at you;

the big mouth bully finally getting his comeuppance in front of the entire school.

Seriously, BT--you have no friends and the workd is laughing at you.

[pepperbear]

5. Such steely resolve. I like that in a hairdo. n/t

[MichiganVote]

7. Well alrighty then. Cue the Katie Couric interviews and the wardrobe stories.